• refreeze@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m a little surprised that they are planning on testing downstream distros like bazzite. It would make more sense to just stick to the biggest upstream distros like Arch/Debian/Fedora for benchmark purposes in my opinion.

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      1 month ago

      Bazzite would make it very easy to reproduce the same result. Just pull the exact version they used, set Proton and you’re done

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      1 month ago

      They’re aiming for “something the viewer can achieve themselves”.

      99% of ex-Windows users won’t be going for Arch, Debian or Fedora. It’s supposed to be easy to get in, difficult to screw up.

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        And it’s a channel aimed at gamers. Seeing Wendell serving as advisor gives me hope that they can get good results and i agree with the choice of distro

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      I disagree. Keep in mind that most people seeing the benchmarks will be windows users, and seeing Bazzite’s gaming performance along with it’s reputation for simplicity to set up and may help convince them to switch. Plus, anyone that had experience with Linux will know the link between it and Fedora, and can adjust expectations for theur particular distro

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        I disagree sort of. I find it hard to believe a new distro is easier to set up than mint or Ubuntu and when it comes time to troubleshoot, youll get less support than the upstreams. Both searching existing posts and making new posts there will be less answers. Unless you make a search fo the upstream, and then there’s a chance your distro tweaked something and it’s different.

        What also makes me sus is that if influencers are promoting lesser-known distros, it might be paid. Which is fine but could mean plans to monetize that distro in the future.

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          What also makes me sus is that if influencers are promoting lesser-known distros, it might be paid. Which is fine but could mean plans to monetize that distro in the future.

          As opposed to Cannonical, which has been making slow pushes over the years to control Linux via Snaps?

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        1 month ago

        As someone using bazzite, it just works out of the box and I think that’s exactly what a lot of the windows uses are looking for.

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          1 month ago

          Indeed. Took me 20min from starting install to having my first game on Steam. Best experience ever. Never looked back.

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            I used to run Ubuntu, but i am totally hooked on the immutable thing that they are doing.